Atonement Ap Language Analysis
With close reference to your chosen extract, how does McEwan use language and narrative method to create a sense of impending doom?
Ian McEwan wrote this novel at a time of modernism. It was a time to experiment how the novels were written. In Atonement, Briony is a character trying to reach her “highest point of fulfilment” as a writer. Quite strange she was only a young girl who was entering adolescence, while trying to balance this will over control and a life full of secrets. These characteristics will have a major impact on impending doom and will finish with her making a sin.
One way in which McEwan uses language and narrative method to create a sense of impending doom with close reference to my chosen extract is by using long sentences …show more content…
“Briony was hardly to know it then, but this was the project’s highest point of fulfilment”. This states that nothing will be better as it is at the moment. Prolepsis creates a sense of impending doom and shows that things will start to go wrong. Later on we clearly see that they do as the vase gets broken, which causes a conflict between Cecilia and Robbie and on top of this there is a big crime coming in the …show more content…
We are told about her intelligence and passion to write in the beginning of the novel. It is hard to believe that a young girl could be a successful writer. This is what her older sister Cecilia thinks “Yes, my younger sister, Briony Tallis the writer, you must surely have heard of her”. Briony’s sister is sure that they should know her, but it doesn’t seem to be like it. She gets no response about her sister being a writer. This creates an impending doom, because McEwan uses informal language and a colon before the sentence to let us know that we are going to be told something. And we found out that Briony is not going to be a successful in a future because no one knows about her, so everything is going to fall apart. Therefore in the novel Briony’s play fails, afterwards she gets the wrong letter from Robby which leads her to a criminal and argument with Cecilia. As Briony becomes more mature she wants to apologize and tell the truth about what happened long ago. She writes a letter to Cecilia towards the end of the novel. All that has happened in the novel is like a circle followed by writing and letters which one more time proves that writing was important at a
Ian McEwan wrote this novel at a time of modernism. It was a time to experiment how the novels were written. In Atonement, Briony is a character trying to reach her “highest point of fulfilment” as a writer. Quite strange she was only a young girl who was entering adolescence, while trying to balance this will over control and a life full of secrets. These characteristics will have a major impact on impending doom and will finish with her making a sin.
One way in which McEwan uses language and narrative method to create a sense of impending doom with close reference to my chosen extract is by using long sentences …show more content…
“Briony was hardly to know it then, but this was the project’s highest point of fulfilment”. This states that nothing will be better as it is at the moment. Prolepsis creates a sense of impending doom and shows that things will start to go wrong. Later on we clearly see that they do as the vase gets broken, which causes a conflict between Cecilia and Robbie and on top of this there is a big crime coming in the …show more content…
We are told about her intelligence and passion to write in the beginning of the novel. It is hard to believe that a young girl could be a successful writer. This is what her older sister Cecilia thinks “Yes, my younger sister, Briony Tallis the writer, you must surely have heard of her”. Briony’s sister is sure that they should know her, but it doesn’t seem to be like it. She gets no response about her sister being a writer. This creates an impending doom, because McEwan uses informal language and a colon before the sentence to let us know that we are going to be told something. And we found out that Briony is not going to be a successful in a future because no one knows about her, so everything is going to fall apart. Therefore in the novel Briony’s play fails, afterwards she gets the wrong letter from Robby which leads her to a criminal and argument with Cecilia. As Briony becomes more mature she wants to apologize and tell the truth about what happened long ago. She writes a letter to Cecilia towards the end of the novel. All that has happened in the novel is like a circle followed by writing and letters which one more time proves that writing was important at a